High-tech shrimp farming area constructed in Bac Lieu province

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (C) released shrimps in a greenhouse of Vietnam-Australia Group (Photo VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen
Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony to launch the construction of a high-tech
agricultural area specialised in shrimp development in the Mekong Delta
province of Bac Lieu on January 30 as part of a local investment promotion
conference.

The area will cover 418.91 hectares in Hiep
Thanh commune, Bac Lieu city, with total expected investment of 3.2 trillion
VND (140.4 million USD).

The locality has big ambitions of becoming a
national shrimp industrial hub.

The area will serve as a centre linking with
institutes, schools and businesses using high technology in shrimp breeding,
creating a chain from producing parent shrimp and varieties to super-intensive
farming, processing, preservation and food production research.

According to Chairman of the provincial People’s
Committee Duong Thanh Trung, after the ceremony, more than 20 businesses
registered to invest in the shrimp farming area, while many institutes and
schools signed agreements to connect, transfer and apply advanced technologies.
The total registered investment amounted to more than 2.6 trillion VND (114.1
million USD).

He called for more assistance from the
Government, ministries and businesses to build high-tech shrimp farming models
to aid local development.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Nguyen Xuan Cuong said the area will help expand high-tech shrimp breeding
across the region along with 28 shrimp-breeding cities and provinces
nationwide, contributing to realising the country’s shrimp export target of 10
billion USD in 2021-2025.

PM Phuc urged the province to accelerate the
construction of the area to put it into operation as soon as possible.

The same day, the PM attended a ceremony to
release shrimps in a greenhouse of Vietnam-Australia Group and build a symbol
of Vietnamese shrimp.
Bac Lieu has an aquaculture
area of 1,290 sq.km. With a coastline of 56 km, three seaports and an economic
exclusive zone of 20,742 sq.km, the province has favourable conditions to
develop agriculture, fishing and fishery logistics.

Agriculture accounts for 43.14 percent of the
province’s gross regional domestic product. Each year, the locality harvests
about 210,000 tonnes of aquatic products, of which 115,000 tonnes are shrimp,
with shrimp export turnover exceeding 527 million USD. -VNA